Comments on: 3-Step Process to Meet Design Challenges http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-step-process-to-meet-design-challenges/ Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:02:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Omar http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-step-process-to-meet-design-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-8054 Omar Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:35:07 +0000 http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-powerful-design-methods-to-help-you-overcome-any-obstacle/#comment-8054 My issue has been obserrving and not doing. I will read a mass amount of information which impedes me from taking action. But I'm ready to take more action. I can do it. I will not be denied. Thanks for the article! My issue has been obserrving and not doing. I will read a mass amount of information which impedes me from taking action. But I’m ready to take more action. I can do it. I will not be denied. Thanks for the article!

]]> By: Kris Leslie http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-step-process-to-meet-design-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-1636 Kris Leslie Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:00:18 +0000 http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-powerful-design-methods-to-help-you-overcome-any-obstacle/#comment-1636 This reminds me so much of my college days of beginning web design and graphics design. Actually, you took the words right out of my mouth. Being a designer for me is the greatest gift I could ever have. Design is present in all that we see, do and ignore. I agree totally with you that at times we do become automatons and develop habits that usually create a mental wall to block the birth of new ideas. Once I came to practice (similar to what doctors say) design I realized that the world wasn't the same as I once believed. It was truly "filtered" as the writer said. In science, we know that our eyes, mind and experiences tend to create, filter, twist and maybe invert what is really happening in real time. Honestly, one of the easiest way to explain life is to take a deeper look at the movie "The Matrix" which I'm sure we all have heard of or seen. Life is so much similar to the experience of taking the red or blue pill. You have your choice. However, upon making your choice, it is up to you to continue to follow down the rabbit hole and see where it leads. I do recommend to any and everyone whether you have artistic abilities or not, take a look at what design really is about. Writer, this is a very good article and it couldn't have been written any better. Two thumbs up! "Design is the context without void. Everything has a place and purpose, even emptiness." - Kris Leslie This reminds me so much of my college days of beginning web design and graphics design. Actually, you took the words right out of my mouth. Being a designer for me is the greatest gift I could ever have.

Design is present in all that we see, do and ignore. I agree totally with you that at times we do become automatons and develop habits that usually create a mental wall to block the birth of new ideas.

Once I came to practice (similar to what doctors say) design I realized that the world wasn’t the same as I once believed. It was truly “filtered” as the writer said. In science, we know that our eyes, mind and experiences tend to create, filter, twist and maybe invert what is really happening in real time.

Honestly, one of the easiest way to explain life is to take a deeper look at the movie “The Matrix” which I’m sure we all have heard of or seen. Life is so much similar to the experience of taking the red or blue pill. You have your choice.

However, upon making your choice, it is up to you to continue to follow down the rabbit hole and see where it leads. I do recommend to any and everyone whether you have artistic abilities or not, take a look at what design really is about.

Writer, this is a very good article and it couldn’t have been written any better. Two thumbs up!

“Design is the context without void. Everything has a place and purpose, even emptiness.” – Kris Leslie

]]> By: jazzcat25 http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-step-process-to-meet-design-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-134 jazzcat25 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:45:42 +0000 http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-powerful-design-methods-to-help-you-overcome-any-obstacle/#comment-134 I like the stuff mentioned on "observing". I think so many people try to do observation in a vacuum and don't account for real life use with products. The end result may look pretty, but it's design is flawed simply because people don't use the product that way in the first place. I like the stuff mentioned on “observing”. I think so many people try to do observation in a vacuum and don’t account for real life use with products. The end result may look pretty, but it’s design is flawed simply because people don’t use the product that way in the first place.

]]> By: mira http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-step-process-to-meet-design-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-133 mira Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:40:42 +0000 http://www.ploomy.com/2008/02/11/3-powerful-design-methods-to-help-you-overcome-any-obstacle/#comment-133 What's really powerful behind good observation is that I, as a user/participant, rarely acknowledge the existence of a problem UNTIL it's solved. People usually don't complain about things, because they usually don't *recognize* it as a problem. Habit is formed for them. They're accustomed it. Designers, thankfully, observe human behavior in a more objective approach and, in most cases, help people live better. Sometimes I think to myself, "wow... I don't know what it is with this new keyboard, but for some reason my wrists are feeling better. I always thought it's just the way all keyboards are." Great read, btw. What’s really powerful behind good observation is that I, as a user/participant, rarely acknowledge the existence of a problem UNTIL it’s solved. People usually don’t complain about things, because they usually don’t *recognize* it as a problem. Habit is formed for them. They’re accustomed it. Designers, thankfully, observe human behavior in a more objective approach and, in most cases, help people live better. Sometimes I think to myself, “wow… I don’t know what it is with this new keyboard, but for some reason my wrists are feeling better. I always thought it’s just the way all keyboards are.”

Great read, btw.

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